A pair of bomb attacks in eastern Afghanistan has killed eleven people and wounded nearly a dozen others. (March 21)
The federal government appears poised to select Manhattan, Kansas as site of a $450 million lab to study deadly biological threats like foot-and-mouth disease. Some are concerned diseases could escape and harm livestock. (Dec. 3)
Floods and landslides in southern Brazil have killed 45 people, driven 22,000 from their homes and ruptured a major gas line, officials said Monday. (Nov. 24)
Police say an Oklahoma woman who was lured over the Internet to take part in a Ku Klux Klan initiation was shot and killed after the ritual went awry, and the group tried to cover it up. (Nov. 12)
Anti-government protesters who have closed down Bangkok's airports broke through a police cordon meant to shut them off from supplies, raising fears Saturday of widening confrontations. (Nov. 29)
The New York Giants say wide receiver Plaxico Burress accidentally shot himself in the right thigh. The Giants say the shooting happened Friday night and he was released from the hospital early Saturday. (Nov. 30)
A former Utah state trooper named a suspect in several Dallas-area roadway shootings has died.
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